If you think you’ve got a talent which can impress and entertain, now is the time to show us what you’ve got. Successful acts will then be in with a chance of securing a place at one of the judges’ auditions in 2018.

As a special treat, auditionees can also meet last year’s local Britain’s Got Talent stars, Issy Simpson & MerseyGirls.

The show has led to some amazing careers for its previous winnmers - but can you remember who they were and in which year?

Britain’s Got Talent previous winners:

2007, Series 1 Paul Potts - singer

Paul Potts on Britains Got Talent

Paul Potts is a British tenor. In 2007, he won the first series of ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent with his performance of “Nessun dorma”, an aria from Puccini’s opera Turandot.

As a singer of operatic pop music, Potts recorded the album One Chance, which topped sales charts in 13 countries.

Prior to winning Britain’s Got Talent, Potts was a manager at The Carphone Warehouse.

He had served as a Bristol city councillor from 1996 until 2003, and also had performed in amateur opera from 1999 to 2003.

2008, Series 2 George Sampson - dancer

Britain's Got Talent winner George Sampson

George Sampson is an English street dancer, presenter, dancer, singer, and actor.

He won the second series of Britain’s Got Talent on 31 May 2008 at the age of 14.

He successfully got through the first round of Britain’s Got Talent series 2 auditions by dancing to “Rock This Party (Everybody Dance Now)”. He then came top in the audience’s vote in his semi-final with his arrangement of Mint Royale’s big beat remix of “Singin’ in the Rain”, complete with an artificial rain machine on-stage, a formula that had previously been produced in a TV advert for the Volkswagen Golf GTI.

He subsequently won the audience’s vote in the final, beating dance duo Signature (second place) and Andrew Johnston (third place). He broke into tears when his win was announced.

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2009, Series 3 Diversity – dance troupe

Britain's Got Talent winners Diversity

Diversity are a British street dance troupe formed in 2007 and based in London. They are best known for winning the 3rd series of Britain’s Got Talent in 2009, beating runner-up singer Susan Boyle in the live final.

Diversity consists of friends from London (Leytonstone and Dagenham) and Essex (Basildon), including two sets of brothers and three other members.

At the time they appeared on Britain’s Got Talent, some were still at school or university, while others had jobs of their own.

The group, ranging in age from 21-32, consists of leader and choreographer Ashley Banjo and the following other members: Jordan Banjo, Sam Craske, Mitchell Craske, Perri Kiely, Warren Russell and Terry Smith. Founding members Ashton Russell, Ian McNaughton, Jamie McNaughton, Matthew McNaughton and Ike Chuks have left Diversity.

Following their performance in the final, Holden said she thought Diversity had “blown Flawless out of the water”, while Cowell said that “If I had to give marks on that, this would be the only performance tonight I would give a 10 to.” However, Morgan thought Flawless “just edged [Diversity].”

They finished in the top 3 again, as did Susan Boyle, along with saxophonist Julian Smith.

In a shock result, in front of a record audience of 17.3 million viewers, Diversity were announced as the winners, despite Boyle being the clear favourite to win.

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2010, Series 4 Spelbound – gymnastic troupe

Spelbound are a gymnastic troupe from the United Kingdom who rose to fame in 2010, winning the fourth series of Britain’s Got Talent.

The prize was £100,000 and the opportunity to appear at the 2010 Royal Variety Performance. They also performed in the Britain’s Got Talent Live tour.

They have since performed at numerous venues and have been featured in advertisements.

Spelbound auditioned for BGT, and wowed the judges and the crowd from the start. They performed to the song ‘O Fortuna’ a poem originally written in the 13th century as part of a collection known as the Carmina Burana, and set to music in 1935/36 by the German composer Carl Orff. They went on to the semi-finals and finals, significantly beating Twist and Pulse in the final round to win the competition in front of over 15 million TV viewers.

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2011, Series 5 Jai McDowall – singer

Jai McDowell

Jai McDowall is a Scottish singer–songwriter who won the fifth series of Britain’s Got Talent in June 2011. As the winner, he received £100,000 and performed at the 2011 Royal Variety Performance. McDowall was signed to Syco Music, a subdivision of record label giant, Sony Music.

Before Britain’s Got Talent, he appeared as a contestant on The X Factor and The American Idol Experience.

His debut album Believe was released on 9 December 2011. The lead single “With or Without You” was released the same day.

In March 2012, he was dropped by Syco after poor sales of his debut album. This prompted an outburst from the singer, who claimed that Syco boss, Simon Cowell, was anti-Scottish.

Jai auditioned in Liverpool for the fifth series with “Anthem” from Chess, receiving positive comments from the judges, Michael McIntyre, Amanda Holden and David Hasselhoff. He received three yeses and was put through to the next round, and through to the live semi-finals.

In the final, Jai performed “To Where You Are” by Josh Groban. He once again received positive comments from all four judges, despite some criticism from judge Simon Cowell, who stated that the vocal was ‘monotone’. During the result, Simon later complimented Jai on his rendition of the song after he had won the top prize. Jai was announced as the winner with 29.1% of the vote, approximately 4.1 million, which proved a shock as he beat bookies’ favourite Ronan Parke.

2012, Series 6 Ashleigh and Pudsey – dog trick act

They first achieved prominence as contestants in the sixth series of the television talent show Britain’s Got Talent, which they won on 12 May 2012, becoming the first ever dog trick act to win the competition.

On 21 July 2017, Butler announced that Pudsey had died. Following his death, Butler said that her other trained dog, Sully, would take over future events but “never become Pudsey”.

Their audition was held in Cardiff and aired on 7 April 2012. They danced to The Flintstones soundtrack. With a standing ovation from the audience and all three judges, they were put through to the next round. Simon Cowell said “Pudsey is one of the best dancing dogs I’ve ever seen”.

The final was held on 12 May 2012, where they performed to the Mission: Impossible theme. The routine involved Pudsey walking across the judging panel and then climbing onto Ashleigh’s back.

Ashleigh and Pudsey won the 2012 series, beating classical duo Jonathan and Charlotte.

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2013, Series 7 Attraction – shadow theatre group

Hungarian dance troupe Attraction on Britains Got Talent

Attraction are a Hungarian shadow theatre group. They rose to fame during a performance at the Hungary Olympic Oath Ceremony for the London 2012 Olympics, in which they did a rendition of many of the traditional sports within the five rings of the Olympic games logo.

Less than a year later, they won the seventh series of Britain’s Got Talent on 8 June 2013, beating Jack Carroll.

For their Britain’s Got Talent auditions, they acted out a story of a couple who meet at Stonehenge, fall in love, marry, and have a child. The father goes off to war shortly after their baby is born, and dies tragically. The piece ends with an image of the mother and daughter standing beside his tombstone. Judge Amanda Holden fought back tears and called the performance ‘moving’ and they received a loud standing ovation from the audience and judges.

In the final Attraction performed a tribute to Britain, the highlights being when a lion was formed with their bodies and the face of Queen Elizabeth II they formed with their bodies at the end of the performance. Once again they received a standing ovation and again Holden shed a tear.

They were announced the winners and became the first foreign act to win Britain’s Got Talent and the third group act to win.

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2014, Series 8 Collabro - musical theatre group

Collabro are a UK-based musical theatre group and winners of the eighth series of Britain’s Got Talent in 2014. The group consists of Michael Auger, Jamie Lambert, Matthew Pagan and Thomas J. Redgrave, and previously, Richard Hadfield until his departure from the band in June 2016. Collabro was voted the UK’s favourite Britain’s Got Talent Winners in a National Poll.

The band have a following who they refer to as their “Collaborators” and famous fans include Jade Thirlwall from Little Mix.

Their debut album Stars was released on 18 August 2014 and debuted at number one in the UK. Their third album, Home, was released on 3 March 2017.

In February 2014, a month after forming, Collabro auditioned in London for the eighth series of Britain’s Got Talent. They received a standing ovation from both the audience and judges Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden, Alesha Dixon and David Walliams for their rendition of the song “Stars” from the musical Les Misérables.

During the live final on 7 June, Collabro performed a different arrangement of their audition song “Stars” for which they received 26.5% of the vote, winning the competition by a wide margin.

2015, Series 9 Jules & Matisse – dog trick act

Jules O'Dwyer and Matisse on, Britain's Got Talent (Image: PA)

Jules O’Dwyer & Matisse are a British dog dancing act, comprising trainer Jules O’Dwyer, a 48-year-old woman, and her dog Matisse, a male Border Collie. Together they won the ninth series of Britain’s Got Talent in 2015.

For their audition in episode 7, O’Dwyer took the role of a dog catcher with Matisse portraying a stray dog. In addition to telling a story, Matisse performed a variety of canine freestyle tricks. The routine earned them four yes votes from the judges.

Their performance in the final, on 31 May, consisted of O’Dwyer being a policewoman and Matisse a sausage thief. O’Dwyer included two of her other dogs, Chase and Skippy, in the act.

Matisse performed numerous tricks, but the biggest trick was a dog scaling a tightrope.

At the end of the night, it was revealed that Jules O’Dwyer & Matisse were the winners, receiving 22.6% of the votes. The runner-up, Jamie Raven, lost by 2.2%.

The following day, O’Dwyer stated in an interview that Chase did the tightrope trick. The viewers were unaware of this because Matisse and Chase look very similar.

Some viewers felt that they were tricked or misled since they didn’t know that Chase was in the act and assumed that one dog did all the tricks.

On 17 August 2015 Ofcom ruled that Britain’s Got Talent had misled the public, acknowledging that ITV did not intend to deceive viewers - it said they were ultimately misled - having received in excess of 1,000 complaints, to that date.

Jules O’Dwyer and Matisse are the second dog act to win Britain’s Got Talent.

2016, Series 10 Richard Jones – magician

Richard Jones wows the judges on Britain's Got Talent (Image: ITV)

Richard Jones is a British magician and military soldier, best known for winning the tenth series of Britain’s Got Talent in 2016.

He won the competition on 28 May 2016, becoming the first magician to win the show.

The final saw a celebration of 10 years of the show with a special ‘Best of Britain’s Got Talent’ performance put together by Diversity’s Ashley Banjo.

2017, Series 11 Tokio Myers – pianist

Tokio Myers (Image: ITV)

Torville Jones, better known by his stage name Tokio Myers, is a pianist and music producer born in London. He won reality show Britain’s Got Talent in 2017 playing Debussy’s “Clair de lune”, which turned into Ed Sheeran’s song “Bloodstream”; Rihanna’s “Diamonds” in semi-final 3; and in the final Hans Zimmer’s Interstellar Theme soundtrack and Rag’n’Bone Man’s hit “Human”.

Myers has previously supported Kanye West, The Police and Amy Winehouse when he toured with producer Mr Hudson’s band. He also supported Lianne La Havas on her 2016 European Tour.

Myers used synths and a sample pad as part of his performances, fusing classical roots with dance and pop genres. He was signed to a publishing deal with BMG.